{"id":20199,"date":"2023-02-19T07:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=20199"},"modified":"2023-02-12T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:53:46","slug":"evolving-emotions-love-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/02\/19\/evolving-emotions-love-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Love- Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Love in June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why does attraction bear shame<br \/>\nwhen authenticity should be bliss<br \/>\nbeyond imagination?<br \/>\nWhat of love and a kiss?<\/p>\n<p>A photo makes me worry and wonder<br \/>\nam I doing right by Him?<br \/>\nIf my mind were clouded in filth, what more should I discover<br \/>\nas I clamber inward?<\/p>\n<p>Skin-crawling and heavy-minded<br \/>\nI lay awake in twilight, tortured by what could be.<br \/>\nIs there a point in it<br \/>\nor will it all come crashing?<\/p>\n<p>Is there pride to be found in the monochrome,<br \/>\nsaturated only by the few with conviction?<br \/>\nCould there be more besides loathing?<br \/>\nIt has a grasp on me.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20202\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220131_004237123_iOS-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220131_004237123_iOS-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220131_004237123_iOS-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220131_004237123_iOS-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/20220131_004237123_iOS.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love in June Why does attraction bear shame when authenticity should be bliss beyond imagination? What of love and a kiss? A photo makes me worry and wonder am I doing right by Him? If my mind were clouded in filth, what more should I discover as I clamber inward? Skin-crawling and heavy-minded I lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":22232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,1520,34,281,15,1828,1829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22230,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20199\/revisions\/22230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}